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The importance of nutrition is a key element in every athlete's preparation and training, whether at school level all the way through to the world class performance demanded from Olympians.

Renowned coach Jim Saltonstall opened day 1 of the 420Class High Level Coaches Clinic at the 420 Class Academy Vilamoura SAILING in Portugal, featuring five days of presentations from experts and on-water sessions to practice and hone skills.

The Galician Sailing Federation will host the 2019 420 Junior European Championship from 23-30 July 2019 at its venue at Vilagarcia de Arousa in north-western Spain.

JK PIrat hosted the Portoroz Cup in Slovenia over the weekend of 29-30 September, featuring racing for the 420, 470, FJ and Fireball Classes.

Brnging together multiple youth classes - 420, Cadet, Laser, O'Pen Bic and Optimist - round 1 of the South Australia Youth Tri Series featured sixty-one boats racing at Lake Bonney Yacht Club over the weekend of 29-30 September.

Cole Tapper/Ryler Creevey made their mark this Summer on the international circuit at the 420 Junior Europeans and 420 Worlds, and on Sunday 30 September picked up the New South Wales Youth Championship title.

A convincing scorecard of 5 races wins, and a second place discarded, gave victory at the 2018 Indianske Leto in the Czech Republic to Lukas Wehrenbert/Tobias Kraus.

For the first time in their domestic event season this year, the Irish 420s had some breeze to stretch their legs.

The 2018 Western Australian Youth Championships featured 7 races from 26-27 September at the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club.

As Japan's "annointed" two-person youth dinghy, the 420 Class wa the only non-Olympic Classes mixing it up with the global stars at Enoshima Olympic Week,